Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri…

Beware the man of one book.

— St Thomas Aquinas

Beware of a man of one book.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader,…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him a whole…

— Anonymous

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell him a…

— Christopher Morley

“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of papers and ink and glue - you sell him a…

— Christopher Morlay

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Blíndur er bóklaus ma∂ur. Blind is a man without a book.”

— Hannah Kent

“He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which is simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is…

— John Williams

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole…

— Christopher Morley

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a…

— Christopher Morley

God deliver me from a man of one book

— Bible

For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been…

— R. A. Torrey

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

— Victor Hugo

“Cave ab homine unius libri. (Fear the man of one book)”

— Anonymous Latin